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Mr Baseball (1992)

Director: Fred Schepisi

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From Time Out Film Guide

Hardly one of Schepisi's finest hours: Selleck mugs his way through the usual 'fish out of water' routine as a lippy American ball-player who joins a Japanese team, but, somewhat predictably, has difficulty adjusting to the confines of group mentality. It's fairly tame stuff, but Matsushita's take-over of Universal dumped the production into controversy, with the Japanese reckoning the script was anti-Japanese and the Yanks reckoning it anti-American. We Brits took one look and called it 'straight to video'.

Author: TJ 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Fred Schepisi

Producer: Fred Schepisi, Robert Newmyer, Doug Claybourne

Cast: Tom Selleck, Ken Takakura, Aya Takanashi, Toshi Shioya, Dennis Haysbert full cast

Duration: 113 mins


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